New Zealand has operated a country-wide content filter for years. It is primarily used to filter out "content depicting the sexual abuse or exploitation of chil

New Zealand has operated a country-wide content filter for years. It is primarily used to filter out "content depicting the sexual abuse or exploitation of children and young persons" [1]. Filtering of objectionable content is entirely within the social norms of New Zealand. For comparison, since the video and manifesto have been labelled "objectionable" [2] it would be illegal to burn either to a disk and then carry the disk across the border. The argument the government will make is that this is applying the same rules to content imported into the country via the Internet instead. If the population expects the social networks to take this content down, they will expect ISPs to remove access to social networks which do _not_ take the content down. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_New_Zealand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_New_Zea... [2] https://www.classificationoffice.govt.nz/news/latest-news/christchurch-attacks-press-releases/#christchurch-attack-video-footage-and-document-has-been-banned-in-nz-what-this-means-for-you https://www.classificationoffice.govt.nz/news/latest-news/ch...